Popular Science Picks the 2012 Movie With the Sloppiest Science

Science in sci-fi movies is rarely all that accurate. We get that. It’s OK. Space battles wouldn’t be nearly so visually interesting if there weren’t any impossible explosions taking place in a vacuum. But some movies take their disregard for the basic principles of science to the next level. And according to Popular Science, the worst perpetrator from 2012 is…

Among those violations: Scientists who take off their helmets within minutes of setting foot on an alien planet, the crew of a high-tech mission never having met before the start of said mission, and a super-sophisticated android who can’t tell time (“when asked how long the mission has lasted, [David] says, “2 years, 4 months, 18 days, 36 hours, 15 minutes,” not “2 years, 4 months,19 days, 12 hours and 15 minutes”).

They conclude:

“Just about the only thing that Scott got right with Prometheus was the organizational ineptitude of the mission, which was essentially a doomed-to-catastrophically-fail season of Big Brother on an alien world.”

Ouch.

The others on the list, from least-to-most offensive, are: The Amazing Spider-Man, Looper, Skyfall, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and Total Recall.